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題名 Motivations of Wikipedia content contributors
作者 楊亨利
Yang, Heng-Li;Lai, Cheng-Yu
貢獻者 資管系
關鍵詞 Motivation theory; Self-concept-based motivation; Knowledge-sharing; Wikipedia
日期 2011-10
上傳時間 21-Jan-2015 11:18:46 (UTC+8)
摘要 Rapidly developing web technologies have increased the prevalence of user-generated Internet content. Of the many websites with user-generated content on the Internet, one of the most renowned is Wikipedia, which is the largest multilingual free-content encyclopedia written by users collaboratively. Nevertheless, although contributing to Wikipedia takes time and knowledge, contributors are rarely compensated. As a result, there is a need to understand why individuals share their knowledge in Wikipedia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of both conventional and self concept-based motivation on individual willingness to share knowledge in Wikipedia. After performing an online questionnaire survey, SEM was applied to assess the proposed model and hypotheses. The analytical results showed that internal self-concept motivation is the key motivation for knowledge sharing on Wikipedia.
關聯 Computers in Human Behavior,26(6),1377-1383
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.011
dc.contributor 資管系
dc.creator (作者) 楊亨利zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Yang, Heng-Li;Lai, Cheng-Yu
dc.date (日期) 2011-10
dc.date.accessioned 21-Jan-2015 11:18:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 21-Jan-2015 11:18:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 21-Jan-2015 11:18:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/73101-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Rapidly developing web technologies have increased the prevalence of user-generated Internet content. Of the many websites with user-generated content on the Internet, one of the most renowned is Wikipedia, which is the largest multilingual free-content encyclopedia written by users collaboratively. Nevertheless, although contributing to Wikipedia takes time and knowledge, contributors are rarely compensated. As a result, there is a need to understand why individuals share their knowledge in Wikipedia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of both conventional and self concept-based motivation on individual willingness to share knowledge in Wikipedia. After performing an online questionnaire survey, SEM was applied to assess the proposed model and hypotheses. The analytical results showed that internal self-concept motivation is the key motivation for knowledge sharing on Wikipedia.
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dc.relation (關聯) Computers in Human Behavior,26(6),1377-1383
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Motivation theory; Self-concept-based motivation; Knowledge-sharing; Wikipedia
dc.title (題名) Motivations of Wikipedia content contributors
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.011en_US
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.011en_US